Erik Emil Konstenius

1891 - 1957  (66 år)

• Namn	Erik Emil Konstenius  [1]
  Födelse	5 Feb 1891	Karunki, Lappi, Finland
  Kön	Man
  Död	19 Feb 1957	Ironwood, Gogebic, Michigan, USA
  Noteringar	He and his brother Sakari seem to have been favorites of their mother. He did not get along very well with his father especially after his father refused to sell him land so that he could get married. Erik Emil worked on log drives when he could get away from work on the family farm. He bought himself a bicycle and rode some distance on it to learn carpentry from an older man. He practiced that until he had enough money for his passage to the United States. It isaid that when Erik Emil left to go to America on May 8, 1914 that his mothers crying could be heard as far as Sweden. He left for America with several friends. He at least worked in DeKalb, Illinois, for a while in the wire mills. He probably went to visit his half-sister Sofia Johanna Mantyla at the lumber camp her husband was operating and stayed to work there. He met the cook Fanny Salmela and they were later married. They bought a farm in Saxon. Fanny, however, had grown up in the city and wanted to live in one. Erik Emil may have traded his farm for a house in the Aurora Location of Ironwood, Michigan, and went to work in the ironmines nearby. The constraints of marriage proved too much for Fanny and they were divorced on October 15, 1921. The suit had been filed April 21, 1921. Erik Emil arranged for a series of housekeepers to care for his two children or else had them live with the families of friends. In 1925 he married a young girl from Brantwood, Wisconsin, who had come to be with relatives in Ironwood Township and whom he had hired to care for the children. He became naturalized American citizen on November 19, 1938 at Bessemer, the count seat. After being injured in a mine accident in which several ribs had punctured his lungs, he was given a small pension of 30 dollars a month on which the family lived during the Depression. He had built a home for an Italian family across from their friends in the South Pabst Location. The man either became ill or lost his job. They could not buy the home. Erik Emil, therefore, moved his family to the new house and rented out the two-story home in the Aurora Location. The renters, however, did not pay the rent and so the taxes were not paid. The house was finally lost for non-payment of the taxes. There had been a fire in the house in earlier days which had resulted in some remodelling when the building was repaired. There was a garage with attached barn and hayloft entered from the garage. Pigeons were kept there at one time. The front yard was a slope and was fenced in in earlier days. There was a pump in the middle of the front yard and trees and gooseberry bushes lining one side of the driveway nearest the garage. The house was heated by furnace. Erik Emil had put in a wooden foundation for a bathtub in one of the side rooms of the basement but had not finished it before the move to the South Pabst location. He worked in the basement on doll furniture one winter for a gift for Florence. He built homes for other people and also built a tavern for some friends on the road from Hurley to Mercer, Wisconsin. He worked on W.P.A helping build a road from Ironwood to the Norrie Location. He worked at a sawmill where he lost the tips of several fingers. He became blind and spent his last years moving between a chair under a tree in the yard and a chair and his bed indoors.
  Person-ID	I1347	Ekdahl
  Senast ändrad	7 Mar 2024

  
  

  Far	Nils Erikkson Konstenius,   f. 17 Aug 1847, Over-Vojakkala,Finland d. 28 Feb 1933, Karunki, Lappland, Finland (Ålder 85 år)
  Relation	natural
  Mor	Kreeta Elvira Lasheikki,   f. 11 Jul 1861, Helsingby, Lansi-Suomen Laani, Finland d. 5 Sep 1922 (Ålder 61 år)
  Relation	natural
  Familjens ID	F452	Familjeöversikt  |  Familjediagram

  
  

  Familj 1	Fanny Salmela,   f. Oulu, Uleåborgs län, Finland d. 1936
  Barn	1. William George Konstenius,   f. 26 Nov 1919, Ironwood, Gogebic, Michigan, USA d. 16 Jul 1998, Baraga, Baraga, Michigan, USA (Ålder 78 år)  [Far: natural]  [Mor: natural]   2. Florence Elizabeth Konstenius
  Familjens ID	F456	Familjeöversikt  |  Familjediagram
  Senast ändrad	7 Mar 2024

  
  

  Familj 2	Alice Johanna Mattson,   f. 17 Okt 1907   d. 9 Nov 1974, Ironwood, Gogebic, Michigan (Ålder 67 år)
  Barn	1. Jenny Cecelia Konstenius,   f. 25 Jun 1926, Ironwood, Gogebic, Michigan, USA d. 15 Nov 2005, Bergland, Ontonagon, Michigan, USA (Ålder 79 år)  [Far: Natural]  [Mor: Natural]   2. Wilbert Pellervo Konstenius,   f. 02 Apr 1930   d. 13 Nov 1993, St Louis, Minnesota, USA (Ålder 63 år)  [Far: Natural]  [Mor: Natural]   3. Elizabeth Ann Konstenius   4. Norma Jean Konstenius
  Familjens ID	F457	Familjeöversikt  |  Familjediagram
  Senast ändrad	7 Mar 2024

  
  

• Händelse-karta

  Födelse - 5 Feb 1891 - Karunki, Lappi, Finland Död - 19 Feb 1957 - Ironwood, Gogebic, Michigan, USA  = Länk till Google Earth

  
  

• Källor

  [S114] Florence Konstenius private archive, Nilo Tuoma and his dscendants.